Republican congressmen generally agreed with the IG’s recommendations and raised additional concerns about mission creep at Fannie and Freddie…

All of the receivables were originated through the retail channel…

The Consumer Federation of America agreed that the FICO score used by Fannie and Freddie is outdated and amounts to a monopoly on scoring. It supports the lender-choice option, but with constraints. The CFA recommended that lenders be required to pick a provider for a minimum period and said the models used by the two government-sponsored enterprises should align with one another.

In 1Q18, MGIC wrote $10.6 billion of new MI policies compared to $12.8 billion in 4Q17 and $9.3 billion in the first quarter of last year.

As a practice, IBM rarely says a word about Seterus...

Is Bank of America doing a slow fade on mortgages?

Back in July 2017, Fannie revised its automated underwriting system to accept loans with DTI ratios over 45 percent without lenders having to show other compensating factors…

In the 2017 annual report, Pershing Square lists Fannie and Freddie common among its “losers…”

In early 2018 both GSEs were under orders from the Federal Housing Finance Agency to set g-fees that meet a “minimum return on equity…”

Watt’s term expires in early 2019. President Trump is not expected to nominate him to another term. Then again...